The headline seems like clickbait, but it’s a meaningful write-up.
If you’re unclear about the value of CRT, this will give you some excellent insights. An analyst explores the Advanced Placement African American Studies course, that’s currently in pilot mode.
'The task of countering colorblindness is thus not merely to see race again, but to reenvision how disciplinary tools, convention and knowledge-producing practices that erase the social dynamics that produce race can be critically engaged and selectively repurposed toward emancipatory ends.'
SOCIALITY. I'm fascinated by this pomo analysis of the awkward contradictions in L'Affaire Doležal. The conceptualization is of particular interest: "bad objects," "performative autocorrection," "failed interpretant," "citational mistakes," and the "moral mea culpa of confession."
conservatives and reactionaries love to advocate on behalf of children b/c they see children as unpersons who can be ignored completely when they self-advocate and whose will ought to be subordinated to their adult owners; this is the main part of the freak out about "#criticalRaceTheory", "#wokeism", and all the #queerphobia targeting public education and educators.
right-wing adults believe they are entitled to their own children thinking and acting as those adults say the children should think and believe, and b/c the right engages in extreme indoctrination and coercion to achieve this, they also believe that any divergence of obedience must be due to some nefarious outside influence rather than the children themselves having agency or original desires.
these adults are looking to eradicate all competing forms of ideas children might be exposed to and to beat and even torture children that fail to comply e.g. "#conversionTherapy"
"Legislation that makes it dangerous to teach the history of things like redlining, white flight, rural land loss, and the countless federal and local policies that exacerbated racial inequities in housing, will particularly affect urban planning departments and related courses of study, such as urban studies and sociology."
https://persagen.com >> search: "christopher rufo" OR "chris rufo"
rufo AND "manhattan institute"
rufo AND "heritage foundation"
rufo AND "critical race"
rufo AND desantis
As the #AmericaFirst movement of #WWII once again rears its head and gears up for the next elections, it is much better prepared than in 2016 and the #Midterms of 2022.
A racist utterance of a #US military 🪖 leader made me remember a thread I had published on the Birdsite in Sept. 2022.
It focused on the strategic use of #veterans by the #MAGA movement.
As it will happen again, I am republishing...
"...Christian men to fight against the #LGBTQ agenda.
A review of many hours of exchanges between #Bannon and his #WarRoom guests makes it clear that #CRT [#CriticalRaceTheory] is now presented on the far right as an existential threat to the constitutional foundations of the republic, and therefore something to be fought—above all by #veterans from the #military’s elite units—by any means...
"...necessary 👉The imminent threat is from an unholy combination of #China and #CriticalRaceTheory. There is no room for compromise here, #Bannon insists: #👈“We don’t seek competition. 👉We don’t want confrontation, we want total and complete destruction root and branch of the #Chinese#Communist Party.” [#CCP]👈
“You ask anybody in the #SpecialForces, the broad Special Forces community, I’m talking...
With which skin colour is #Jesus represented in RE teaching resources? In this Norwegian research article, colourblindness in the sense used in #CriticalRaceTheory is used as a framework to study such representations. Discussions on representation in teaching resources can be a way to promote #antiracist#ReligiousEducation, the authors write.